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- Pacers’ Tuesday victory eliminates Heat from NBA playoffs
- Cubs’ Welington Castillo making most of limited role
- Health trumps wealth in importance to retirees’ well-being
- Chicago Improv Fest: Producer’s picks
- Chicago canine influenza epidemic traced to Asian strain
- Maine South upsets Lyons, advances to PepsiCo Showdown quarterfinals
- Assisted Living listings
- Active adults live the good life
- Senior Apartment listings
- Continuing Care listings
- Baby boomers demand changes
- Dementia needs special care
- Blackhawks capture special moments in ‘What’s Your Goal?’ videos
- Skilled care meets many needs
- Three ways to bloom this spring
- Chicago Audubon honors 13 who protect environment
- Active adult listings
- Apartment living a qualified option
- CCRCs serve changing needs of residents
- Assisted living offers help to seniors
- Memory Care listings
- Short/Long Term Care listings
- Thursday: Eat. Drink. Do.
- Retirement Community listings
- Guam becomes first U.S. territory to allow gay marriage
- Body pulled from Chicago River
- Ask Amy: With the weddings come the questions
- Police: Missing girl, 13, found safe
- Duck dynasty: Peking duck still packs the customers in
- At least 2 dozen residents displaced after Lake in the Hills fire
- Yoga at Dev Bootcamp
- How Dev Bootcamp uses yoga to relieve stress and enhance creativity
- Woman dead, 11 wounded in separate shootings
- Nokia aims to become networks giant with Alcatel-Lucent deal
- Suspect ID’d in fatal shootings after crash that killed toddler
- Rauner pension fix could backfire, experts warn
- PCP found in body of teen shot 16 times by Chicago cop
- Cubans hail removal from U.S. list of state terrorism sponsors
- Kris Bryant, Iowa idled by rainout
- Lincoln’s Tomb in Springfield
- Jaguar cubs on display at Brevard Zoo
- As Lincoln’s death marked, tomb’s caretakers face setbacks, criticism
- Protests for $15-an-hour wages set to expand Wednesday
- Jermon Bushrod throws his weight behind Jay Cutler, Matt Forte
- Online networking guide: 35 ways to connect with anyone through social media
- Construction on NFL’s Draft Town set to begin next week
- Meet the photographers
- Dark comedy delves into dysfunction
- Columbine survivor among jurors chosen for Colorado theater shooting trial
- Weekend ideas: Garden, paint, laugh
- Minimum wage protests
- Beaver dams along Otter Creek
- V. Stiviano must return pricey gifts to Shelly Sterling, wife of ex-Clippers owner
- Italian dining
- Workers fight for higher wages
- Teen expo
- Neil Diamond made the little things pay off
- Prickly City- Give Up
- There’s only one choice for Bulls
- Prickly City: When Do You Just Walk Away?
- Famed chef Homaro Cantu, owner of Moto, found dead on Northwest Side
- Groupon to offer new golf caper ‘The Squeeze’ via digital download
- Pets of the Week: April 19
- Tribune Publishing names Sandy Martin full-time CFO
- Melissa McCarthy movie filming at U.S. Cellular Field
- Tom Waddle pays $2.15 million for Lake Forest house
- Illinois at the bottom in taxpayer study
- How to move out of your Chicago apartment
- New concussions deal with NCAA proposed
- Reserved: Prince and princess parking only
- Community sports calendar
- Amazon to stream ‘Orphan Black’ season 1 free for 24 hours
- Aaron Hernández hallado culpable de asesinato premeditado
- New Horizons mission captures first color image of Pluto
- Outfield silence eerie during Wrigley Field renovation
- Photos: Butoh dance for ‘SS2: Post-Butoh Festival’
- Disney sells ‘Frozen’ packages for summertime Hollywood Studios event
- 2016 Cadillac ELR gets power boost, price drop
- Israeli ultra-Orthodox site cuts ‘pornographic symbol’ Kim Kardashian from photo
- United to upgrade food on regional jets
- Mayweather da gancho a la bandera mexicana
- TDC looks to sports village to draw families
- Falleció el famoso chef de Chicago Homaro Cantu
- HotChocolate chef Mindy Segal has grown wiser, but is no less fiery
- Niño en coma tras ser atropellado
- What is butoh dance and why is it like this?
- HIMSS conference: Robots, wearables and the future of healthcare
- Library Notes: Tips on finding the right college April 20 in Grayslake
- Clocks on State Street store getting paint job and polish
- LaGrange Road Army Reserve site to be transferred to developer
- Macy’s clocks repainted
- Love and angst in Ireland
- Tickets, packages on sale for Swan and Dolphin Food & Wine Classic
- Heart attack victim saved by police officer, BP employee
- PDF: Donor’s lawsuit against Aaron Schock
- Library tweaks its fine structure
- School Notes: Libertyville students honored for achievements
- Crete delays vote on Rauner-back ‘turnaround’ resolution
- ‘Star Wars’ fans get special deal at Swan and Dolphin hotel
- Lessons lost on claw game wins
- Festival de Cine Latino de Chicago 2015: Susana Alexander festeja con ‘El cumple de la abuela’
- General Mills reports fire at manufacturing plant in West Chicago
- NFL draft preview: Offensive line
- Photos: Celebrity centennial celebrations
- Swimming: Rules change allows jewelry during meets
- Photos: Neil Diamond performs in Chicago
- Skate park at Grant Park
- Des Plaines leaders argue over photo removal
- Paul Sassone: Time to treat our mother better
- Cook’s garden saves money, builds freshness into your cooking
- Netflix renews ‘Orange Is the New Black’ for season 4
- Library tightens wording on patron conduct policy
- Tickets going fast for Tinley’s Brew/Vine festival
- Might as well stay awhile if going to Australia; add a cruise
- Ne-Hi is one of Chicago’s most thrilling live bands
- Madison School celebrates its 90th anniversary
- Oak Forest extends pact for planning services
- Letter: Glenview residents invited to River Clean-up Day May 9
- Our new national motto: Shut up unless you’re skinny
- Letters to the editor
- Operation Click winners
- Discounted Chicago Gourmet tickets on sale Thursday
- Lake FX conference for creatives and entrepreneurs begins Thursday
- Olga Tanon to kick off SeaWorld’s Viva la Musica fest
- Woycik: Three cheers for volunteers
- Councilman asks for demolition test
- Russia blocks Hollywood thriller day before its release
- Community choir: a contest and a concert
- White Sox’s Micah Johnson says it’s up to MLB to promote African-American players
- Working magic at the Pleasant Home in Oak Park
- Letter: Zion must unite, show its true character after police shooting
- Highland Park show features wearable art for spring, summer
- La Grange eighth-grader wins national map contest
- Carpentersville wants residents to help preserve the monarch butterfly
- Vettel: How Cantu changed Chicago’s culinary scene
- Madison School time capsule
- Photos: Two jaguar cubs at Brevard Zoo
- Shout Out: Rick Richer, baseball coach
- Survey shows Southwest frequent-flier program best in U.S. by far
- Photos: Maine South vs. Lyons
- Lincoln’s assassination, on April 14 or 15, will remain etched in stone
- Analyst’s survey suggests McDonald’s franchisees are unhappy
- Naperville businesses hit with graffiti
- United Airlines to upgrade food for coach fliers on overseas flights
- Shout Out: Morton Grove’s Ruh Afroze, hairstylist, lover of long drives
- Shout Out: Drashti Rami, mother, singer and ice cream lover
- Northwestern spinoffs NuMat, Ampy hit it big at Clean Energy Challenge
- O’Hare’s remodeled international terminal racking up record sales
- GLAAD Report: Movies improving for gay characters, still lack transgender roles
- Man forfeits $30K bail — posted by his mom — after failing to show for trial
- Smoky Mountains backpacking reveals joys, challenges of leaving the world behind
- McDonald’s: 60 years, billions served
- Saving the past for the future
- Morton Grove woman recounts family’s time in WWII internment camps
- Today’s unhinged and the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing
- Sandra Cisneros viene a Chicago con ‘The House of Mango Street’
- Facing 20 felonies, men plead not guilty in armed home invasion case
- WNBA draft prospects
- 10 years of Landmarks Illinois
- Family destinations: Visitors go buggy over Spring Fest at Purdue
- Letter: Election night quote lacks civility
- Gisele Bundchen se retira de las pasarelas
- Urban Gateways raises record $310,000
- Chicago’s smelt tradition
- Diamond Stone’s father details why his son decided to play at Maryland
- CNET’s Brian Cooley on tech trends in 2015
- Suspect in Milwaukee double homicide was out of prison for bank robbery
- Budget 2015–16: Skokie considers new food, beverage tax
- Chicago playwright hired as writer on ‘How to Get Away With Murder’
- Rand Paul means business on tax reform
- Federales investigan a las escuelas públicas de Chicago
- 5 things to know about moving into your new Chicago apartment
- Chicago Audubon Society presents 2015 awards
- Fannie, Freddie to discount blighted homes in Chicago, Cook County
- East Dundee strip mall renovation would include restaurant, coffee shop
- General counsel to Gov. Bruce Rauner buys Hinsdale home for $1.37 million
- William Daley, wife under contract to sell rental condo
- Month after fatal fire, Antioch family still haunted by memories
- Diamond Resorts Sweepstakes
- Rahm Emanuel tells Spike Lee he’s not happy about Chiraq title
- Love Essentially: 16 signs she digs you
- Canadian diplomat’s teenage son charged with murder
- BMX riders perform for U.S. troops
- Chicago theaters receive large grant for audience-building
- Ald. Burke: Don’t have votes to loosen rules on nudity at Chicago strip clubs
- Photos: Chicago theaters receive big grant
- Epcot: Starbucks ‘You Are Here’ mugs for sale again
- Glenview residents meet to mull over sidewalks built around Avoca West School
- ‘Between You, Me and the Lampshade’: Humor, humanity in play about border crossings
- Chicago Tax Day specials
- Funny or Die behind Dennis Quaid freak-out video
- Seattle CEO to cut his pay so every worker earns $70,000
- <br>Broadway preacher and the city’s 100th homicide
- ‘Song About Himself’: Garbled words and a need for contact
- Chicago theater openings for the week of April 17-23
- Labor Dept.: Brokers must put client interests ahead of their own
- Indians 4, White Sox 2
- Judge rejects intimidation plea deal
- CNET’s Brian Cooley: How will we use free time in driverless cars?
- Ike Barinholtz on ‘Suicide Squad’ role: ‘It’s a very different side of me’
- Where the poor and rich really spend their money
- Lori Healey to replace Jim Reilly as head of McPier
- Cubs to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day
- North Chicago launches local My Brother’s Keeper effort
- How actor-playwright Kinnear wrote his life into ‘The Herd’
- Urban Gateways gala raises record $310,000
- Photos: ‘The Street Is My Gallery’
- English soccer player banned for 6 months for 2nd biting offense
- Community events and announcements
- Mayhem Fest coming to Tinley
- Acusados de robo residencial se declaran no culpables
- 1 dead after van crashes into house on Far South Side
- Lake County gives green light to road construction season
- Suburban firefighters, teachers push “Blue Lip Kiss Challenge” to help student with rare heart disease
- Michael Jordan statue will be on the move Thursday
- Paul Sassone: Pull the drain on unlucky pool
- Man accused of leaving daughter in trash can is held on $300K bail
- Late bluesman Muddy Waters at center of legal dispute in DuPage
- Se movilizan en apoyo a los ‘$15 por hora’
- Jennifer López rodará comedia al estilo ‘Bridesmaids’
- Dew Tour, BMX and skateboarding competition, could come to Grant Park
- Police: N.C. college shooting suspect hitchhiked to Florida
- Rubio: ‘He hecho más por los inmigrantes de lo que nunca hizo Hillary’
- Montgomery man arrested after police Facebook post facing additional charges
- Officer: Boy found in Detroit basement ‘hesitant’ to emerge
- Publicis CEO has no regrets over failed advertising megamerger
- Southwest to use wider seats in new planes
- Lake County Senior Shootout basketball is Friday night
- 10th regional Earth Day celebration comes to Expo Center
- Bail lowered for teen facing gun charges related to Zion police shooting
- Table8 comes to Chicago
- Carmel, Warren grads are tough outs in Midwest Conference softball
- Police shooting
- What’s wrong with the title ‘Chiraq’
- Illinois board of education names new leader, OKs severance deal for Koch
- Land of Lincoln’s grave situation dissed in National Geographic
- Graffiti in the ‘Gallery’: Show about street art a bold choice for Hellenic Museum
- Repeal the federal laws on pot
- Photos: Hiking the Smokies
- Man charged with armed robbery
- Ex-FBI official: Agency is hiding evidence in anthrax case
- Moment of silence held to mark 2 years since Boston bombings
- Ex-lawmaker loses state pension in legislative panel vote
- Photos: Lincoln Mall auction
- Jack White plans break from touring after 5 acoustic shows
- Dating deja vu: How to stop falling for the same type over and over
- Business travel spending expected to rise
- Registration underway for Fox River canoe race
- Shout Out: Michael Wenzel, Northbrook golf pro
- Duels between ACC, Yorkville standouts to highlight Matt Wulf Invite
- Alegría en Cuba por salir de lista de terrorismo
- Review: ‘Ex Machina’
- RedEye’s FREEkin Wknd: Chicago Craft Beer Week giveaway
- Initiative promotes organ donation
- Severe weather ends New Trier’s Japan Bowl prospects
- Man shot to death near his home in south suburban Riverdale
- Chicago reports 100th homicide of 2015
- Pick-your-own fruit farm to open in Chicago this summer
- Proposed Route 53 extension (infographic)
- Navy officer pleads guilty in Asian bribery scandal
- Lake Zurich School District 95 superintendent to retire
- Newly re-elected Winnetka leader blames vote count on turnout
- State budget, school funding are top priorities for Elgin lawmakers
- Help Squad: Insurance error results in $10K in bills
- Christie opposes Iran deal, open to US troops fighting Islamic State
- Opinion: Illinois needs to end corporate giveaways
- Una misión para salvar vidas
- Karli Chmelik’s high jump progress as easy as 1-2-3
- Richard Mann, former math and science teacher
- Corrections and clarifications for Thursday, April 16, 2015
- Ripley’s: Orlando artist crafts peanut portrait of Jennifer Lawrence
- Man injured in Gilmor Homes arrest has spine surgery, remains in coma
- Rauner’s school board moves to offset CPS cuts
- Zion, Waukegan students spread hope in poetry and prose
- Initiative promotes organ donation
- More millennials say no to credit cards
- Girls track: Warren’s Ellis poised for run at three state titles
- Detroit hit man says he, not teen, responsible for drug house slayings
- Zion, Palatine students win new cars in Operation Click contest
- Discover rolls out freeze feature on credit cards
- Lenhoff: Reaction to Indiana’s religious freedom act reveals modern spirituality
- Alderman trying to remove protected bike lane from Kinzie Street
- Gary, Lake County create new homicide unit
- VA employee says he was fired after warning of hospital cost
- Kadner: CEO sets $70,000 minimum wage
- Streamwood’s Mark Orszula vacates football post for AD job
- ‘Leftovers’ to bloom again
- Emanuel scoffs at Rauner suggestion that CPS declare bankruptcy
- Probation officers conspired with FBI, cops for illegal searches, suit claims
- Bears coach John Fox buys Tom Waddle’s Lake Forest home
- Martha Stewart-inspired cook doesn’t always go by the book
- Randy Blaser: The quest for a satisfying grocery experience
- Suspicious fires test fire department
- Wednesday’s recap: Indians 4, White Sox 2
- River Forest taps Swickard as principal
- Burke lacks votes on strip club measure
- Talk of the County: Litter lines forest preserve on North Chicago, Waukegan border
- Truck driver tears up sport fields in Oak Forest
- Aaron Schock donor sues ex-congressman, alleges fraud
- Photos: ‘Finding Neverland’ on Broadway
- Michael Phelps confirms he’s aiming to swim at 2016 Olympics
- Woodstock bank robbed; thought to be same culprit as Crystal Lake case
- 1 more arrest in videotaped sex assault on woman on Florida beach
- Aurora City Council appears ready to discuss Ald. Johnson censure
- Commissioners: E-911 site staying in EC
- Bilter Road flooding
- Mike Olt out of Cubs’ lineup
- Agricultural high school students bring food, hygienic items to the homeless
- Quickly for April 15: ‘Try mandatory voting and 6-week campaigns’
- Longmeadow Parkway project has always been controversial
- Referendum on Longmeadow Parkway lands on ballot
- Notre Dame’s Kelly enjoys depth afforded by strong quarterback combo
- Aurora votes to sell Fox Valley Golf Course
- Assessor’s controversy fails to draw crowd to Rutland Township meeting
- When educators cheat: Truth and consequences in Atlanta
- Photos: Longmeadow Parkway referendum
- Bears’ NFL draft preview: Offensive line
- Man charged in campaign worker shooting
- APR 15 | The Great Cartoon Debate
- Mokena village administrator to retire in fall
- Frankfort sergeants getting pay raise
- El Barca se pasea por París y el Bayern tropieza en Oporto
- Bilter Road residents say construction is causing flooding
- More than a chef, Cantu had an artist’s ability to transform us
- White Sox lament defensive miscues after 4-2 loss to Indians
- Eakin one-room school house moves to Hampshire
- After rebuilding from a fire, Balto. Co. home has same roots, different look
- Why did a Chicago cop shoot Laquan McDonald?
- Students, adjunct professors rally for higher wages, snarl traffic
- Local Roundup for Wednesday, April 15
- Fight for $15 rallies part-time college professors
- New Lenox smoothie shop robbed
- Adjunct professors seek higher wages
- No rent: My life as a couch-surfer
- Caretakers of Lincoln’s tomb face setbacks
- Andrean’s Kevin McCune is Post-Tribune Boys Bowler of the Year
- Jewell Loyd’s early entry means WNBA draft gems could fall to Sky
- Nigerian military focus on area abducted girls believed held
- Rosemont cop who shot, killed brother-in-law said he ‘had to do it’
- Ask Tom: Why do we hear little about tornadoes in the rest of the world?
- Photos: Abraham Lincoln’s tomb
- Kris Bryant’s defense at 3B works for Joe Maddon
- Northwestern football set to get a boost
- Fierce clashes in Iraq as Islamic State seizes villages near Ramadi
- Worker dies after becoming trapped in machine at Elk Grove Village plant
- River Forest aims to jump-start Lake Street business district
- Chesterton’s Abby Burke knows her game on tennis court
- 2 vie to fill seat left vacant by death of state lawmaker Earl Harris
- Florida, Wisconsin try to ban ‘climate change’
- Local Roundup for Wednesday, April 15
- Obama makes new push on middle-class tax breaks
- ‘Surreal’ sale at shuttered Lincoln Mall
- Local Roundup for Wednesday, April 15
- New school superintendent for Illinois
- Baseball: Jacobs 4, Hampshire 0
- The Supreme Court is hearing from an unexpected champion of same-sex marriage: Corporate America
- Elmwood Park man accused of intentionally hitting 2 men with his car
- Aaron Hernandez convicted of 1st-degree murder, gets life in prison
- The chaos that surrounds Israel
- Man lands gyrocopter on Capitol lawn
- Federal subpoenas sent to College of DuPage
- Tommy La Stella expects to return soon
- Photo Gallery: Homewood-Flossmoor 6, Sandburg 0
- Brenden Heiss pitches Jacobs past Trey Schramm, Hampshire
- Joliet man thought to have fled U.S. re-indicted in fatal DUI case
- Baseball: Jacobs 4, Hampshire 0
- An early boost for Bluegrass fest
- Baseball: Jacobs 4, Hampshire 0
- Needle exchanges could stem HIV outbreak
- Speak Out
- Photo Gallery: Jacobs 4, Hampshire 0
- Post-Tribune Bowling Scores
- Chicago to see showers before noon Thursday, some sun later
- To shoot or not: A walk in an officer’s shoes
- A fragile man, whispered innuendo and two suicides in Missouri
- Getting lost on way to Broadway’s ‘Finding Neverland’
- Gary School Board fires finance chief
- Waubonsie Valley’s one-two punch too much for Batavia
- When it comes to bringing joy to others, Patrick Kane delivers
- Richard Phillips, 40-year Tribune veteran, dies at 71
- Globetrotting Markus Solbach feels at home with Cougars
- Handwriting sample wanted to prove Vann letter is real
- Photo Gallery: Waubonsie Valley 8, Batavia 3
- Softball: Waubonsie Valley 8, Batavia 3
- Homewood-Flossmoor’s James Sheehan blanks Sandburg
- Waubonsie Valley 8, Batavia 3
- Possible TSA groping victims contact Denver authorities
- Lake Central’s Young, Schmied are Boys Bowling Coaches of the Year
- Hanover Central’s Alyssa Gill homers twice in win
- Post-Tribune Boys Bowling All-Area Team
- Softball: Hanover Central 9, Griffith 0
- Wednesday’s recap: Bulls 91, Hawks 85
- Softball: Hanover Central 9, Griffith 0
- Police: Man burned trying to kill bedbugs inside rental car
- Sarah Simchak powers Calumet College softball to sweep
- H-F relay team leaves handoff mishap in the dust
- Soph Spinell breaks out as Barrington beats Buffalo Grove
- Hawks top Preds: So many emotions in Game 1
- Homey hospitality at Juliet’s
- New Trier’s aggressive base running leads to tie with Stevenson
- Soccer: Providence 1, Marist 0
- Post-Tribune Prep Scoreboard for Wednesday, April 15
- 2015 women’s college lacrosse
- Providence’s Sanders makes it count in soccer win over Marist
- Bulls vs. Bucks: Season series
- Oklahoma business leaves message for dumpster diver
- Marine helicopter is forced to land on California beach
- Marine Corps helicopter lands on beach
- Wednesday’s recap: Cubs 5, Reds 0